A visual explanation of how DNS lookups work
Posted in Guest posts on June 8th, 2009 by Pingdom
Most reasonably technical Internet users have a pretty good idea what DNS is, but what actually happens when you look up a domain name is not always so clear. For those of you who are a bit uncertain of how it works (or just like geeky server charts), we found an excellent picture describing the chain of events of a DNS lookup.
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